The place of religion within the understanding of nationalismin Turkey's current political parties

In this thesis study, the analysis of religion in the current political parties in Turkey is aimed. It is made with the regulations of seven political parties that form the nationalist discourse in present Turkey and selected ideological values of these parties. In accordance with the nationalism theories, the idea of this thesis is to study and analyze the understandings of nationalism in Turkey through the regulations of political parties. Definition of nationalism, its time of emerge in history, its growth, its time of becaming a subject to social sciences, the revelation of the nature of studies and arguements practiced on it, along with when and how it is included in Turkey and its historical transformation in Turkey will be the main topic of this paper. Both in the world and the Turkey, nationalism has been a research subject because of its ability to create historical, political and social transformations. Also in Turkey, there's been various researches done about nationalism, nationalism and religion. But, because of the always-updated status of social sciences and nationalism's always-evolving nature in our country, it can be said that up to date researches are always needed as well. Besides, this study will provide a new idea about the opinions which are defined as nationalistic and its identity through the paper's style of analyzing with the regulations of political parties and nationalistic theories on the present nationalistic opinions in Turkey.